Zori
#4,985 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zori has been given to 788 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #4,985 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Zori, 2025
1 in 123,000
Zori over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zori?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 59,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,985
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zori sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zoris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zori was born before 2017 — so the typical Zori is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 788
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (386).
Is Zori rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −601
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,648
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −998
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.9%
- Peak was 2017 (63)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.7% average annual change
Spellings of Zori
Zori is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 19.2% against Zori's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Zori is used
Across 2016–2025, Zori was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 28,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 4,545
- 2Georgia1 in 12,500
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 5Virginia1 in 33,333
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Zori by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zori
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zori
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.